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by cbdumas 20d ago
Can folks responding to this comment claiming that they see PayPal a lot provide some details? Country, industry, sector, something. I'm in the US and I basically never see it on e commerce checkout flows any more (and good riddance IM
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by cbdumas 2mo ago
I worked as a undergrad assistant in a research lab in 2011-ish, and the lab had a shelf full of PS3s working as a cluster. Regretfully my project didn't get to use it.
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by cbdumas 3mo ago
If governments want to set up online age gates, they should be responsible for providing an electronic ID system and enable privacy preserving age verification (zero knowledge proofs)
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by cbdumas 3mo ago
There are probably still a lot of cases where you would want PoE though right? Cameras, WAPs, etc.
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by cbdumas 6mo ago
The article is about utility scale solar and storage I believe not home installations. It also mentions towards the end that in cold norther climates adding wind to the mix makes sense
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by cbdumas 6mo ago
> It's like math was forced to run on assembly language despite there were more high-level languages available and more apt for the job. I'm not a mathematician but that doesn't sound right to me. Most math I did in school
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by cbdumas 7mo ago
That may be true but the sense I get from Gen Z folks who I've talked to is that for them Discord is almost more of a social network for interacting with a community. Their activity might be centered around gaming but they're usin
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by cbdumas 7mo ago
I know I'm in the small minority of Discord users who mostly uses it as a voice chat room while gaming with my friends, but for that use case the best alternative I've found seems to be Mumble. I recently set up a Mumble server on
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by cbdumas 11mo ago
What does the 'ad network and search engine' have to do with it? Wouldn't any organization who serves lots of traffic have the same cost cutting goals you mentioned?
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by cbdumas 1y ago
> Cloudflare clearly wants to move us to a future where only approved browsers are allowed to access the web. It seems your confusion stems from this premise. Is it possible this is not a correct assumption?
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by cbdumas 1y ago
As I commute on a motorcycle (often in the rain, causing lower visibility) this is terrifying to me and I hope regulators in my state don't let it happen here until Tesla can prove their "camera only" approach is safe. https
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by cbdumas 1y ago
In that case wouldn't you be better off just disabling 2FA? The problem with the cloud sync is that users like the one in the article think they have 2FA but in fact if their Google account is compromised all their accounts using Goo
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by cbdumas 1y ago
Typically you print out recovery codes and keep them somewhere safe
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by cbdumas 1y ago
> The attacker already had access to ... my Google Authenticator codes, because Google had cloud-synced my codes. This was such an obvious mis-feature I can't believe they actually rolled it out. For those using Google Authenticator
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by cbdumas 1y ago
> And then there’s the code that we rely on for bank transactions, package deliveries, medical results, satellite launches, airline flight paths, self-driving cars, mortgage payments, and nuclear power plants. This is durable code, and i
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by cbdumas 1y ago
> I want note-taking, list-making, and markdown friendly. I feel like you just described Obsidian. You can do more with tagging and linking but you definitely don't have to
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by cbdumas 1y ago
A few years ago I came across (probably on HN) this little Firefox extension that I quite like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fraidycat/ . Seems like it could help you fill this use case
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by cbdumas 1y ago
I don't know anything about this startup but this is definitely an important problem worth solving https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/us-construction-has-prod...
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by cbdumas 1y ago
How does this square with the fact that fertility declines as income rises, both within and across societies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
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by cbdumas 1y ago
NYTimes publishes a fantastic calculator [0] to help make this kind of rent vs. buy decision. It's not always that clear cut. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
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by cbdumas 1y ago
NYTimes has a great calculator for doing just that https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
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by cbdumas 1y ago
My taxi driver on my last time in France (in 2022 I believe) almost made us miss our train from Marseilles to Paris as he drove us around looking for an ATM because he insisted he "left his credit card reader at home". I do not mi
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by cbdumas 1y ago
This is the eternal tradeoff of testing, brought to its logical (no pun intended) conclusion. Testing (and formal verification) don't get you anything for free: writing detailed specs or tests is at least as difficult as writing a corr
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by cbdumas 1y ago
I like this comment because it both argues for "SLC" design and contains the reason why we don't get it: "Sure this thing looks great if only it had <FEATURE>" where <FEATURE> is different for every buye
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by cbdumas 1y ago
I saw that and I'm not convinced this changes anything. The fact that Honey is inserting itself into the affiliate attribution chain at all when it did literally nothing is still wrong to me.
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by cbdumas 1y ago
Maybe I'm just a tech philistine but I find my Pixel 8a and my wife's iPhone <N> to be basically indistinguishable in any meaningful way.
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by cbdumas 1y ago
Despite mounting evidence this perspective remains shockingly common. There seems to be some effect where one might convince oneself that while others are constantly introducing high severity bugs related to memory un-safety, I always follo
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by cbdumas 2y ago
My understanding is that modern touchscreen keyboard use very aggressive predictive text so that the actual "shape" of the keys in terms of where you touch the screen isn't even well defined. This certainly feels like the ca
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by cbdumas 2y ago
Very cool. Goes well with your Ghost S1 as well I see in the background. I love mine, though I will say it's getting harder and harder to find decent 2 slot GPUs.
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by cbdumas 2y ago
Increasing housing density is a great thing and I'm all for it. That said I wish that cheapo stick framed buildings weren't the only way to get it done. In my experience, living in a multistory stick framed building usually means

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